Frases de Vladimír Iljič Lenin

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“É preciso sonhar, mas com a condição de crer em nosso sonho, de observar com atenção a vida real, de confrontar a observação com nosso sonho, de realizar escrupulosamente nossas fantasias. Sonhos, acredite neles.”

“Um imbecil pode, por si só, levantar dez vezes mais problemas que dez sábios juntos não conseguiriam resolver.”

“Enquanto o capitalismo e o socialismo existirem, não poderemos viver em paz. No fim, um ou outro terá de triunfar – um réquiem será cantado sobre a República Soviética ou sobre o mundo capitalista.”

“A paz: uma trégua para a guerra.”

“A morte de uma organização acontece quando os de baixo já não querem e os de cima já não podem.”

“Há décadas em que nada acontece e há semanas em que décadas acontecem.”

“Por isso, seria um grande erro aprender-se comunismo apenas nos livros. Os nossos discursos e artigos actuais não são mera repetição daquilo que se diziam antes do comunismo, porque os nossos discursos e artigos estão ligados com o nosso trabalho diário em todos os domínios. Sem trabalho, sem luta, o conhecimento livresco do comunismo, adquirido em folhetos e obras comunistas, não tem absolutamente nenhum valor, porque não faria mais do que manter o velho abismo entre a teoria e a prática, o velho abismo que era o aspecto mais nocivo da antiga sociedade burguesa.”

“Sem teoria revolucionária, não há prática revolucionária.”

“Os fatos são teimosos.”

“A liberdade é uma coisa tão preciosa que devia ser racionada.”

“O partido é a mente, a honra e a consciência da nossa época.”

“Um homem com uma arma pode controlar 100 sem uma”

“Que desperdício perdermos Mussolini. Ele é um homem de primeira classe que levaria nosso partido ao poder na Itália. [Discurso a uma delegação de socialistas italianos em Moscou após a marcha de Mussolini em Roma em 1922]”

“Em todo o mundo, onde quer que hajam capitalistas, liberdade de imprensa significa liberdade de comprar jornais, de escritores, de subornar, de comprar e fingir "opinião pública" para o benefício da burguesia.”

“Os capitalistas são tão capazes de auto sacrifício como de se auto erguerem pelos seus próprios atacadores.”

“Quando um liberal é abusado, ele diz: "Graças a Deus eles não me bateram".
Quando ele é espancado, ele agradece a Deus que eles não o mataram.
Quando ele for morto, ele agradecerá a Deus que sua alma imortal foi libertada de seu barro mortal.”

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

“The interests of the working class and of its struggle against capitalism demand complete solidarity and the closest unity of the workers of all nations; they demand resistance to the nationalist policy of the bourgeoisie of every nationalist.”

“Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.”

“Socialism, by organising production without class oppression, by ensuring the well-being of all members of the state, gives full play to the “sympathies” of the population, thereby promoting and greatly accelerating the drawing together and fusion of the nations.”

“Disorderly, unorganised and petty terrorist acts may, if carried to extremes, only scatter and squander our forces. That is a fact, which, of course, should not be forgotten. On the other hand, under no circumstances should it be forgotten that a slogan calling for an uprising has already been issued, that the uprising has already begun. To launch attacks under favourable circumstances is not only every revolutionary’s right, but his plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried   out wherever insurrection is rife, in Poland and in the Caucasus, and every detachment of the revolutionary army must be ready to start such operations at a moment’s notice. Each group should remember that if it allows a favourable opportunity for such an operation to slip by today, it will be guilty of unpardonable inactivity, of passivity—and such an offence is the greatest crime a revolutionary can commit at a time of insurrection, the greatest disgrace that can befall anyone who is striving for liberty in deed, and not in word alone.”

“We stand for an alliance with all countries without exception.”

“Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only programme of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.”

“Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes!”

“Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.”

“The state does not function as we desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and he seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.”

“The civil war which was started by the Cadet-Kaledin counter-revolutionary revolt against the Soviet authorities, against the workers’ and peasants’ government, has finally brought the class struggle to a head and has destroyed every chance of setting in a formally democratic way the very acute problems with which history has confronted the peoples of Russia, and in the first place her working class and peasants.”

“By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat… Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier… Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.”

“They will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.”

“The Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns.”

“Democracy is of great importance for the working class in its struggle for freedom against the capitalists. But democracy is by no means a boundary that must not be overstepped; it is only one of the stages in the process of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to communism.”

“… catch and shoot the Astrakhan speculators and bribe-takers. These swine have to be dealt [with] so that everyone will remember it for years.”

“It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.”

“We love our language and our country, and we are doing our very utmost to raise her”

“We ourselves, the workers, will organize large-scale production on the basis of what capitalism has already created; we shall rely on our own experience as workers, we shall establish strict, iron discipline supported by the state power of the armed workers, we shall reduce the role of he state officials to that of simply carrying out our instructions as responsible, revocable, moderately paid "managers"( of course, with the aid of technicians of all sorts, types and degrees). This is our proletarian revolution”

“Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations — such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.”

“And, indeed, there could not be any other grouping among our students, because they are the most responsive section of the intelligentsia, and the intelligentsia are so called just because they most consciously, most resolutely and most accurately reflect and express the development of class interests and political groupings in society as a whole.”

“Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.”

“It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it.”

“Only the most ignorant people can close their eyes to the bourgeois nature of the democratic revolution which is now taking place. Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.”

“To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a party, but upon the advanced class. That is the first point. Insurrection must rely upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. That is the second point. Insurrection must rely upon that turning-point in the history of the growing revolution when the activity of the advanced ranks of the people is at its height, and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted and irresolute friends of the revolution are strongest. That is the third point. And these three conditions for raising the question of insurrection distinguish Marxism from Blanquism.”

“When nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up, there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and, consequently, of particularly intense struggle for the division and the redivision of the world.”

“Communism cannot be imposed by force.”

“History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.”

“What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.”